AT&T (online only) The AT&T website offers free shipping on all phones and $5-$30 online-only discounts on most phones. There are some especially good good deals on "Certified Like-New" (aka refurbished) phones which are listed below.

25% off all SIM or phone plus airtime orders with code PTELG25 or PTWOOT25OFF Free SIM and $50 off the price of any Android phone purchase with code PTELWOOTA50 and purchase of a $40 or $50 Unlimited plan

They need to be unlocked to work with a T-Mo sim and its expensive ($30 to $40) the Huawei Valiant is the T-Mobile Prism 2, which sells for $70-$80, and doesn't need to be unlocked for use with T-Mo or most T-Mo MVNO's sim.

Huawei makes junk phones. Along with ZTE, their networking equipment sold to large companies and governments was found to contain hidden backdoors. They could not explain this before a congressional tribunal. The Chinese military owns a large chunk of Huawei. I don't think anyone should buy from them.

Probably not. The only CDMA phones officially allowed on StraightTalk BYOP are Verizon and Sprint. Boost phones aren't supposed to be allowed. I don't know if anyone has tested that rule so if you try it let us know if it works.

I keep trying to order this Huawei phone from Best Buy, and the order gets cancelled 2-3 minutes after the order is placed. Customer Service is working to try to figure out what is wrong. The only thing I can think of is MetroPCS used to not be available in Missouri, but I think it is available nationwide now. I don't even care if I can get service, I am getting these for my kids to use like iPod Touches on wifi only...for $30, can't beat it! Hopefully Customer Service figures it out before they are all sold out!

As of Monday, October 14, 2013, when ordering from the Best Buy website from the state of California, the Huawei Valiant phone/device is sold out online, and not available for shipping or for store pick-up.

Although not advertised online or in this week's circular, Target is advertising (in store) that the Boost Mobile Samsung Array is on sale for $19.99 and the Virgin Mobile Kyocera Event is on sale for $40.00 The Event is a 3G Smartphone, loaded with Android 4.0

Two different southern California Target locations that I visited on Sunday, October 13, 2013 had both phones/devices on "sale". This could be a regional sale specific to southern California.

Huawei makes complete junk. I recommend staying far away from them. In addition, Huawei ( along with ZTE ) could not explain to Congress why they included hidden backdoors in networking equipment they sold to large US companies and state and federal government agencies. Huawei also was very evasive before Congress about the major equity stake the Chinese military has in them. No one should use Huawei phones even if they are free.

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